I’ve always wondered why software licenses tend to have a part written in ALL CAPS… now I finally understand, it’s for the AI bots.
nightsky
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026English
5·3 months agoARM doesn’t want to be left out and pushes hype to 11, announces “AGI CPU”, for the “agentic AI cloud era”.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026English
3·3 months agoThank you @self, love your haircut
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
1·3 months agoI used to think that I could avoid using open source projects which embrace the slop machines, but new it keeps getting more and more adoption, including in good and beloved projects… at this point I think I’ll just have to accept and ignore it, or otherwise I’d have to play endless whack-a-mole with stuff all over my operating systems :(
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
9·3 months agoIf you’re still on the fence about AI, you have to take it seriously now.
But… why?
Always remember that Nobel disease is a thing.
The one I often think about is the person who invented PCR and then later claimed to have had an encounter with a fluorescent talking raccoon of possibly extraterrestrial origin.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
3·3 months agoOooh I wish this project a lot of success!
Zed is interesting but the project’s very pro-AI stance keeps me away from it. So a fork without that stuff is great, hope that works out longer-term.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026English
13·3 months agoranked according to how much AI is in your code
Truly the greatest idea since “rank developers by lines of code written”.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026English
4·4 months ago404 Media: Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Yue also shared screenshots of her WhatsApp chat with the OpenClaw agent, where she implores it to “not do that,” “stop, don’t do anything,” and “STOP OPENCLAW.”
This is very serious computing and we must all take it very seriously.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2English
2·4 months agoThis was very enjoyable! Actually was over too quickly, would have liked to hear you two talk about AI stuff more.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it publicEnglish
2·4 months agoWhen Woke 2 comes
ooh, please tell me there’s a release date already
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026English
4·4 months agoThanks everyone for the replies <3 Guess I should make an account there after all… bleeeh :/
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026English
3·4 months agoHonest question, since I’m not on linkedin (and kinda looking for a new job): does it really help anyone find a job? It has been my impression from the outside that it’s mostly empty drivel.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026English
3·4 months agoI’m confused that anyone thinks that the world needs another linkedin…
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026English
2·4 months agoWow. The mental contortion required to come up with that idea is too much for me to think of a sneer.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026English
8·4 months agoWhen all the worst things come together: ransomware probably vibe-coded, discards private key, data never recoverable
During execution, the malware regenerates a new RSA key pair locally, uses the newly generated key material for encryption, and then discards the private key.
Halcyon assesses with moderate confidence that the developers may have used AI-assisted tooling, which could have contributed to this implementation error.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026English
3·4 months agoClaim 1: Every regular LLM user is undergoing “AI psychosis”. Every single one of them, no exceptions.
I wouldn’t go as far as using the “AI psychosis” term here, I think there is more than a quantitative difference. One is influence, maybe even manipulation, but the other is a serious mental health condition.
I think that regular interaction with a chatbot will influence a person, just like regular interaction with an actual person does. I don’t believe that’s a weakness of human psychology, but that it’s what allows us to build understanding between people. But LLMs are not people, so whatever this does to the brain long term, I’m sure it’s not good. Time for me to be a total dork and cite an anime quote on human interaction: “I create them as they create me” – except that with LLMs, it actually goes only in one direction… the other direction is controlled by the makers of the chatbots. And they have a bunch of dials to adjust the output style at any time, which is an unsettling prospect.
while atrophying empathy
This possibility is to me actually the scariest part of your post.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026English
3·4 months agoHave a quick recovery! It sucks that society has collectively given up on trying to mitigate its spread.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026English
4·4 months agoAre you trying to say that you are not regularly thinking about the meta level of evidence convergence procedures?
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10·4 months agoThe AI craze might end up killing graphics card makers:
Zotac SK’s message: “(this) current situation threatens the very existence of (add-in-board partners) AIBs and distributors.”
The current situation is so serious that it is worrisome for the future existence of graphics card manufacturers and distributors. They announced that memory supply will not be sufficient and that GPU supply will also be reduced.
Curiously, Zotac Korea has included lowly GeForce RTX 5060 SKUs in its short list of upcoming “staggering” price increases.
I wonder if the AI companies realize how many people will be really pissed off at them when so many tech-related things become expensive or even unavailable, and everyone will know that it’s only because of useless AI data centers?
New AI measurement unit dropped: lies per hour